Christmas Fun

William is always so happy to get new toy's!

This is what we set up till almost midnight, what fun we had.

This was the Kids running into the Living room to see what Santa brought them. Look at his face!

The kids Christmas Sunday dress clothes.

Mimi and Bumpa joined us to open gifts, what a wonderful day it was. I remember when I was little bugging my parents to open presents and how excited me and my siblings were. What a great gift it is to watch my children open their gifts. Later that day we went to my Mom and Dad's for lunch with my siblings and we laughed and talked and had such a great time. We missed having my sister Audra and brother Heath and their families here but I hope next year they will join us. I love being with my family on the holidays, they are my greatest gift!

Birthday

I am so late but I didn't forget. We had a special Birthday in December. My big Baby turned 5. He is so special to me and his dad. We love this big guy. Some things he enjoys are: Lego's, blocks, Searching for Dino's )(loves the show Dino Dan), loves to read books with me and really enjoys kindergarten. No big celebration but I made a cake and took cupcakes to school. Steve and I took him to dinner and to see the new Narnia movie.

We also had our Ward Christmas Party at our Bishops family farm. It wasn't as cold as past years and William absolutely loves it. Santa came and William was elated. Steve and Annie stayed home cause she had a double ear infection and wasn't in a good mood. I took Carly and her mom with us and we had a wonderful time. Merry Christmas all my friends and family!

We visited the dentist today for a filling (William)and he did really great. We have a awesome dentist! He is so caring and sweet with the kids. Dr. Tyler saw both William and Annie today. I only got pics of William. Hopefully my friend (K.D.S.) will see the picture and recognize who our dentist is. He is awesome if anyone wants a referral to him. It's Kids First.

Last Saturday we caught a lizard in our backyard, so funny it was just climbing all over William and I like it was okay to be there. I had to get a picture for William and then all day after that all he talked about was getting a lizard for Christmas.

A busy LIFE!

Arizona had an awesome storm this last week, and my kids and daycare kids got in on the fun. We splashed and played for over an hour in the rain. It was really great entertainment!

Friday was the start of Fall break and we went to the school for the awards ceremony. William had perfect attendance, with the winter coming I know that probably won't happen again so we got in on it now.

William has two loose teeth, tonight while watching a movie with him I told him to wiggle them. He said mom, this one is really loose, so I felt and voila it came out. He was so excited he called Bumpa and told him the good news.

D-Backs

Steve wanted to take the family to a D-backs game, so he got tickets through work and we headed out around 3pm so that we could get some Bobblehead?????????. I didn't think Annie was quite ready for a baseball game but thought we could try. She really did a good job as long as the music was playing or people were getting excited about homerun, out's and all that other baseball stuff. William really enjoys that baseball games and really takes an interest in it. We really had a nice time and the kids had fun seeing the Big Bobblehead's (Grace, Williams,Johnson) race.

Before Steve and I had W/A we went to the games all the time. I really enjoy baseball because I can understand it unlike Football. We really had a good time as a family.

First day of School

Today was William's first day of school, I was nervous but he was so excited. I went over all kinds of info, I am sure was overwhelming but he did so great. I can't believe how grown up he is getting. I love my boy and I know he will do great this year in school. He saw one of his Primary buddies Tayson when we got to the playground and was so excited. He gave me a kiss and said see ya later MOM!

Birtday Celebration!

We started my birthday celebration on Friday night. Steve and I went to Black Angus for dinner. I got a free steak dinner and my sister in law gave me 3 gift cards so our dinner with appitizer/desert was only $12. Awesome.

Saturday we dropped the kids off at Mimi and Bumpa house and went to lunch at Ruby Tuesday (free burger) then saw Iron Man 2 at the $2 movies. Went upstairs to the food court and had my free Orange Julius, then over to Krispy Kreme for my free dozen doughnuts. We were ready to get home by then so we decided to pick up the kids and off to Joe's BBQ for my free meal. I had all these awesome pictures to show but they wouldn't load? It was a great birthday celebration. My mom got to a gift cert and some under clothing. Steve bought me a new camera since my sweet little angel threw mine at me when we were camping. My sister in law gave me the gift cards, and I got so many well wishes from so many people that love me. Even at church people were telling me Happy Birthday, it was an awesome day!